New Delhi:July,7(STN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expanded his cabinet. A total of 43 leaders took oath as ministers in this cabinet expansion. Earlier, many ministers also resigned. Narayan Rane took oath first. Apart from Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, 15 leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia and Virendra Kumar from Madhya Pradesh took oath as cabinet ministers. The remaining 28 MPs were sworn in as ministers of state. These include many leaders including Anupriya Patel from UP.
In the cabinet expansion, BJP leaders Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Jyotiraditya Scindia, RCP Singh, Ashwini Vaishnav, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Kiren Rijiju, Rajkumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupendra Yadav, Purushottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur has been made a cabinet minister.
Narendra Modi’s new cabinet includes Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Patel, Satyapal Singh Baghel, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, Shobha Karandlaje, Bhanupratap Singh Verma, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Meenakshi Lekhi, Annapurna Devi, A. Narayan Swamy, Kaushal Kishore, Ajay Bhatt, BL Verma and Ajay Kumar was inducted as a Minister of State.
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Bharti Praveen Pawar, Bishweshwar Tudu, Shantanu Thakur were sworn in as ministers of state. Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Pratima Bhumika, Dr. Subhash Sarkar, Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad also took oath as Minister of State.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Shobha Karandlaje, Nainital MP Ajay Bhatt, BL Verma, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Darshana Vikram Jardosh, Meenakshi Lekhi, Annapurna Devi, A. Narayanaswamy, Kaushal Kishore, Ajay Bhatt, BL Verma, Ajay Kumar, Debu Singh Chauhan , administered the oath of minister of state to Bhagwant Khuba.
Purushottam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Thakur, G. Kishan Reddy, Pankaj Choudhary, Anupriya Singh Patel, SP Singh Baghel, Rajeev Chandrasekhar took the oath of office and secrecy as Union Ministers. It is said that five engineers, seven bureaucrats, 13 lawyers and six doctors have been included in PM Modi’s new cabinet.
BJP leaders Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan attended the swearing-in ceremony of the new ministers. He had resigned from the cabinet today itself. CDS General Bipin Rawat was also present in the ceremony.
The President has accepted the resignation of 12 members of the Council of Ministers including IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
